end_055   - July 20th, 2006

Map	  - Shub-Niggurath's Pit
Skill	  - Nightmare
Secrets   - 1/1
Kills	  - 20/20
Time	  - 0:55.93073

21 seconds faster than my previous record.
I never would have imagined the time could get this low for the NH.
It was rather tricky to figure out how to kill all the monsters in
the wall. This time I kill 8 monsters as opposed to the 7 I killed
in the 1:16 I recorded yesterday. It would've been 9 if I had hit
the vore that teleports in after the intermission properly, but it
didn't really matter as I had saved plenty of nails for an
intermission kill. I aim in lots of weird angles, but that's the
only way I could make it work.

Here's what needs to fall into place to get all kills and exit in 0:55:

1. You can't get stuck on any of the fish, and you need to kill all 5
   as you swim your way to the portal. Most of the time the last fish
   isn't in a shootable position which is quite annoying.

2. You need to do a fast waterexit while killing the scrag.

3. You need to get a good middle section, if you end up being too slow
   you won't make it to the exit portal in time.

4. This is the tricky part. You need to get the 9 kills in the wall
   while you have quad. You can't wake up any of the monsters and
   just leave them, that will cause some of the other monsters to
   not teleport out. And apparently some shamblers don't die on the
   Shub platform like the vore does on easy skill, so that's not an
   option. On VERY rare occasions like in this demo I ended up with
   a vore not being dead. I had given it enough damage through the
   wall though, so I only had to give it a few nails during the
   intermission :-)


Thomas Stubgaard
stubgaard@speeddemosarchive.com